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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

Bill Mollison

I teach self-reliance, the world’s most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.
BILL MOLLISON

People Practice Self
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.
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Garden People Philosopher
We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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Catastrophes Spectacular Talent
Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
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Bloody Even Way Wronger
I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves.
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Air Confess Fall Moving
You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political.
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Amount Cost Energy Ourselves Provide
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
BILL MOLLISON

Agriculture Country Poison
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
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Country Cutting Square
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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Conflict Errors Order
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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Country Emotion Knows Life Men Women
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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People Philosophy Poison
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
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Government Reality Simple
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Deep Understanding Wealth World
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don’t grow their own vegetables, in fact they’re not deep ecologists – they’re my enemies.
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Car Enemy Vegetables
I’d come into town from the bush – after 28 years of field work in natural systems – and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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Fields Forests Years
We have to let nature put what’s left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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Ass Come Together Up

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

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